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David Rowley b5815dd00a Doc: Fix misleading statement about VACUUM memory limits
In ec34040af I added a mention that there was no point in setting
maintenance_work_limit to anything higher than 1GB for vacuum, but that
was incorrect as ginInsertCleanup() also looks at what
maintenance_work_mem is set to during VACUUM and that's not limited to
1GB.

Here I attempt to make it more clear that the limitation is only around
the number of dead tuple identifiers that we can collect during VACUUM.

I've also added a note to autovacuum_work_mem to mention this limitation.
I didn't do that in ec34040af as I'd had some wrong-headed ideas about
just limiting the maximum value for that GUC to 1GB.

Author: David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAApHDvpGwOAvunp-E-bN_rbAs3hmxMoasm5pzkYDbf36h73s7w@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6, same as ec34040af
2021-08-09 16:46:49 +12:00
Bruce Momjian 9268fc3452 doc: mention pg_upgrade extension script
Since commit e462856a7a, pg_upgrade automatically creates a script to
update extensions, so mention that instead of ALTER EXTENSION.

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-08-08 21:05:46 -04:00
Tom Lane c905e64d42 Doc: remove bogus <indexterm> items.
Copy-and-pasteo in 665c5855e, evidently.  The 9.6 docs toolchain
whined about duplicate index entries, though our modern toolchain
doesn't.  In any case, these GUCs surely are not about the
default settings of these values.
2021-08-08 15:35:30 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut acd6b6e637 Fix wording 2021-08-06 20:56:18 +02:00
Tom Lane 64b7a83532 Doc: remove commit 2945a488a from v14 release notes.
Now that this has been back-patched, it's no longer a new feature
for v14.
2021-08-05 19:09:24 -04:00
Etsuro Fujita 588d3f597c postgres_fdw: Fix issues with generated columns in foreign tables.
postgres_fdw imported generated columns from the remote tables as plain
columns, and caused failures like "ERROR: cannot insert a non-DEFAULT
value into column "foo"" when inserting into the foreign tables, as it
tried to insert values into the generated columns.  To fix, we do the
following under the assumption that generated columns in a postgres_fdw
foreign table are defined so that they represent generated columns in
the underlying remote table:

* Send DEFAULT for the generated columns to the foreign server on insert
  or update, not generated column values computed on the local server.
* Add to postgresImportForeignSchema() an option "import_generated" to
  include column generated expressions in the definitions of foreign
  tables imported from a foreign server.  The option is true by default.

The assumption seems reasonable, because that would make a query of the
postgres_fdw foreign table return values for the generated columns that
are consistent with the generated expression.

While here, fix another issue in postgresImportForeignSchema(): it tried
to include column generated expressions as column default expressions in
the foreign table definitions when the import_default option was enabled.

Per bug #16631 from Daniel Cherniy.  Back-patch to v12 where generated
columns were added.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/16631-e929fe9db0ffc7cf%40postgresql.org
2021-08-05 20:00:01 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 2c92bae3e9 doc: interval spill method for units greater than months
Units are _truncated_ to months, but only in back branches since the
recent commit.

Reported-by: Bryn Llewellyn

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/BDAE4B56-3337-45A2-AC8A-30593849D6C0@yugabyte.com

Backpatch-through: 9.6 to 14
2021-08-03 12:17:58 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9f6215b4c9 pg_upgrade: improve docs about extension upgrades
The previous wording was unclear about the steps needed to upgrade
extensions, and how to update them after pg_upgrade.

Reported-by: Dave Cramer

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CADK3HHKawwbOcGwMGnDuAf3-U8YfvTcS8jqDv3UM=niijs3MMA@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-08-03 11:27:33 -04:00
Bruce Momjian c362570e83 doc: mention inheritance's tableoid can be used in partitioning
Previously tableoid was not mentioned in the partition doc section.  We
only had a link to the "all the normal rules" of inheritance section.

Reported-by: michal.palenik@freemap.sk

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162627031219.693.11508199541771263335@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 10
2021-08-03 11:11:51 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 924e1d0da9 doc: add example of using pg_dump with GNU split and gzip
This is only possible with GNU split, not other versions like BSD split.

Reported-by: jim@jdoherty.net

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162653459215.701.6323855956817776386@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-08-03 10:57:32 -04:00
John Naylor f051b87ace Fix range check in ECPG numeric to int conversion
The previous coding guarded against -INT_MAX instead of INT_MIN,
leading to -2147483648 being rejected as out of range.

Per bug #17128 from Kevin Sweet

Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/17128-55a8a879727a3e3a%40postgresql.org
Reviewed-by: Tom Lane
Backpatch to all supported branches
2021-07-30 16:28:43 -04:00
Daniel Gustafsson c73bba23ef docs: Fix bit_count example output
The returnvalue for the bit_count(::bytea) example was assuming a
non-default value of standard_conforming_strings.  This was fixed
in the tests in commit ebedd0c78.

Author: wangzk.fnstxz@fujitsu.com
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OSZPR01MB6551FFAC1088C82C3D799BE0FAEB9@OSZPR01MB6551.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2021-07-29 21:39:40 +02:00
John Naylor fc0d9b8c22 Disallow negative strides in date_bin()
It's not clear what the semantics of negative strides would be, so throw
an error instead.

Per report from Bauyrzhan Sakhariyev

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane, Michael Paquier
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAKpL73vZmLuFVuwF26FJ%2BNk11PVHhAnQRoREFcA03x7znRoFvA%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch to v14
2021-07-28 12:11:33 -04:00
David Rowley 5a8a9be083 Doc: Clarify lock levels taken during ATTACH PARTITION
It wasn't all that clear which lock levels, if any, would be held on the
DEFAULT partition during an ATTACH PARTITION operation.

Also, clarify which locks will be taken if the DEFAULT partition or the
table being attached are themselves partitioned tables.

Here I'm only backpatching to v12 as before then we obtained an ACCESS
EXCLUSIVE lock on the partitioned table.  It seems much less relevant to
mention which locks are taken on other tables when the partitioned table
itself is locked with an ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock.

Author: Matthias van de Meent, David Rowley
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAEze2WiTB6iwrV8W_J=fnrnZ7fowW3qu-8iQ8zCHP3FiQ6+o-A@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 12
2021-07-28 15:02:12 +12:00
Fujii Masao fd90f6ba7a Avoid using ambiguous word "non-negative" in error messages.
The error messages using the word "non-negative" are confusing
because it's ambiguous about whether it accepts zero or not.
This commit improves those error messages by replacing it with
less ambiguous word like "greater than zero" or
"greater than or equal to zero".

Also this commit added the note about the word "non-negative" to
the error message style guide, to help writing the new error messages.

When postgres_fdw option fetch_size was set to zero, previously
the error message "fetch_size requires a non-negative integer value"
was reported. This error message was outright buggy. Therefore
back-patch to all supported versions where such buggy error message
could be thrown.

Reported-by: Hou Zhijie
Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB5716415335A06B489F1B3A8194569@OS0PR01MB5716.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
2021-07-28 01:21:35 +09:00
Bruce Momjian 5a353a2d43 doc: for various substring funcs, document if only first match
Reported-by: troy@frericks.us

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162614304115.701.2392941350859387646@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 13
2021-07-26 22:54:35 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 695b4a113a pg_resetxlog: add option to set oldest xid & use by pg_upgrade
Add pg_resetxlog -u option to set the oldest xid in pg_control.
Previously -x set this value be -2 billion less than the -x value.
However, this causes the server to immediately scan all relation's
relfrozenxid so it can advance pg_control's oldest xid to be inside the
autovacuum_freeze_max_age range, which is inefficient and might disrupt
diagnostic recovery.  pg_upgrade will use this option to better create
the new cluster to match the old cluster.

Reported-by: Jason Harvey, Floris Van Nee

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190615183759.GB239428@rfd.leadboat.com, 87da83168c644fd9aae38f546cc70295@opammb0562.comp.optiver.com

Author: Bertrand Drouvot

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-07-26 22:38:14 -04:00
Michael Paquier f2a37ddbb1 doc: Fix command example to run regression tests with PGOPTIONS
The documentation mentioned the use of log_checkpoints, that cannot be
used in this context.  This commit replaces log_checkpoints with
force_parallel_mode, a developer option useful to perform checks related
to parallelism.

Oversight in 854434c.

Author: Haiying Tang
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/OS0PR01MB6113954B883ACEB2DDC973F2FBE59@OS0PR01MB6113.jpnprd01.prod.outlook.com
Backpatch-through: 14
2021-07-26 16:27:01 +09:00
Tom Lane 227c4e57d6 Doc: improve documentation about exponentiation operator.
Now that we're not having to wedge this into the straitjacket of
the old operator table format, we can add another example to
clarify the point about left-to-right associativity.

Per suggestion from mdione at grulic.org.ar.

https://postgr.es/m/162661954599.693.13700316547731859171@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-07-21 18:03:45 -04:00
Fujii Masao 9c1d56a9b0 doc: Document that only superusers can use pg_import_system_collations().
Back-patch to v10 where pg_import_system_collations() was added.

Author: Atsushi Torikoshi
Reviewed-by: Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/b7f484692a3e283710032e68b7f40617@oss.nttdata.com
2021-07-21 13:53:12 +09:00
Bruce Momjian f8d1333dec doc: PG 14 relnote adjustments
Reported-by: Elena Indrupskaya

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/38555778-a56b-4aca-2581-e05582fc9bcf@postgrespro.ru

Author: Elena Indrupskaya

Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-07-20 19:37:04 -04:00
Peter Geoghegan e1cdf61726 Doc: vacuum_multixact_failsafe_age is multixact-based.
Oversight in commit 1e55e7d1, which added a wraparound failsafe
mechanism to VACUUM.

Backpatch: 14-, where VACUUM failsafe was introduced.
2021-07-19 17:20:24 -07:00
Michael Paquier 6d0dc1a7da doc: Mention CASCADE/RESTRICT for DROP STATISTICS
This grammar has no effect as there are no dependencies on statistics,
but it is supported by the parser.  This is more consistent with the
other DROP commands.

Author: Vignesh C
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALDaNm1LA=yNmzcSfy+0oe6CEAgsxXRf_-UutE3ZncFi8QkFNQ@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 10
2021-07-19 12:39:50 +09:00
Alexander Korotkov 244ad54155 Support for unnest(multirange)
It has been spotted that multiranges lack of ability to decompose them into
individual ranges.  Subscription and proper expanded object representation
require substantial work, and it's too late for v14.  This commit
provides the implementation of unnest(multirange), which is quite trivial.
unnest(multirange) is defined as a polymorphic procedure.

Catversion is bumped.

Reported-by: Jonathan S. Katz
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/flat/60258efe-bd7e-4886-82e1-196e0cac5433%40postgresql.org
Author: Alexander Korotkov
Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby, Jonathan S. Katz, Zhihong Yu, Tom Lane
Reviewed-by: Alvaro Herrera
2021-07-18 21:11:33 +03:00
Tom Lane 4466b38ec6 Doc: document the current-transaction-modes GUCs.
We had documentation of default_transaction_isolation et al,
but for some reason not of transaction_isolation et al.
AFAICS this is just an ancient oversight, so repair.

Per bug #17077 from Yanliang Lei.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/17077-ade8e166a01e1374@postgresql.org
2021-07-17 11:52:54 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 525115a332 doc: Spell checking 2021-07-16 12:39:23 +02:00
Daniel Gustafsson 9ffe128a6d docs: fix inconsistencies in markup and case
Ensure to properly mark up function parameters in text with <parameter>,
avoid using <acronym> for terms which aren't acronyms and properly place
the ", and" in a value list. The acronym removal is a follow-up to commit
fb72a7b8c3 which removed it for minmax-multi.  In passing, also fix an
incorrectly cased word.

Author: Ekaterina Kiryanova <e.kiryanova@postgrespro.ru>
Reviewed-by: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/c050ecbc-80b2-b360-3c1d-9fe6a6a11bb5@postgrespro.ru
Backpatch-through: v14
2021-07-15 23:22:59 +02:00
Magnus Hagander 3b57d5af74 Clarify description of pg_stat_statements columns
Reported-By: Peter Eisentraut
Backpatch-through: 14
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/8f5e63b8-e8ed-0f80-d8c4-68222624c200@enterprisedb.com
2021-07-14 11:11:11 +02:00
David Rowley 47ca483644 Change the name of the Result Cache node to Memoize
"Result Cache" was never a great name for this node, but nobody managed
to come up with another name that anyone liked enough.  That was until
David Johnston mentioned "Node Memoization", which Tom Lane revised to
just "Memoize".  People seem to like "Memoize", so let's do the rename.

Reviewed-by: Justin Pryzby
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210708165145.GG1176@momjian.us
Backpatch-through: 14, where Result Cache was introduced
2021-07-14 12:45:00 +12:00
Tom Lane 6201fa3c16 Rename debug_invalidate_system_caches_always to debug_discard_caches.
The name introduced by commit 4656e3d66 was agreed to be unreasonably
long.  To match this change, rename initdb's recently-added
--clobber-cache option to --discard-caches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1374320.1625430433@sss.pgh.pa.us
2021-07-13 15:01:01 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 9b450b1f1e doc: Fix typo in function prototype 2021-07-12 22:17:30 +02:00
Peter Eisentraut 166fcf4a63 doc: Make release note entries more accurate
Two tsquery-related release note entries had inaccuracies in the
before and after examples.  Clean that up.
2021-07-12 08:52:21 +02:00
Alvaro Herrera 1beaa654da
libpq: Fix sending queries in pipeline aborted state
When sending queries in pipeline mode, we were careless about leaving
the connection in the right state so that PQgetResult would behave
correctly; trying to read further results after sending a query after
having read a result with an error would sometimes hang.  Fix by
ensuring internal libpq state is changed properly.  All the state
changes were being done by the callers of pqAppendCmdQueueEntry(); it
would have become too repetitious to have this logic in each of them, so
instead put it all in that function and relieve callers of the
responsibility.

Add a test to verify this case.  Without the code fix, this new test
hangs sometimes.

Also, document that PQisBusy() would return false when no queries are
pending result.  This is not intuitively obvious, and NULL would be
obtained by calling PQgetResult() at that point, which is confusing.
Wording by Boris Kolpackov.

In passing, fix bogus use of "false" to mean "0", per Ranier Vilela.

Backpatch to 14.

Author: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
Reported-by: Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/boris.20210624103805@codesynthesis.com
2021-07-09 15:57:59 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 9893d5124b doc: minor PG 14 relnote changes
Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-07-08 18:59:19 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 6f566f0e9b doc: PG 14 relnote, move system view items to the proper sect.
Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-07-08 13:08:09 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 049d3617a3 doc: improve PG 14 relnote item about adding btree pages to FSM
Wording confirmed by Peter Geoghegan.

Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-07-08 12:27:55 -04:00
Fujii Masao e48f2afee6 doc: Fix description about pg_stat_statements.track_planning.
This commit fixes wrong wording like "a fewer kinds"
in the description about track_planning option.

Back-patch to v13 where pg_stat_statements.track_planning was added.

Author: Justin Pryzby
Reviewed-by: Julien Rouhaud, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210418233615.GB7256@telsasoft.com
2021-07-07 21:55:14 +09:00
Fujii Masao 4173477b38 postgres_fdw: Tighten up allowed values for batch_size, fetch_size options.
Previously the values such as '100$%$#$#', '9,223,372,' were accepted and
treated as valid integers for postgres_fdw options batch_size and fetch_size.
Whereas this is not the case with fdw_startup_cost and fdw_tuple_cost options
for which an error is thrown. This was because endptr was not used
while converting strings to integers using strtol.

This commit changes the logic so that it uses parse_int function
instead of strtol as it serves the purpose by returning false in case
if it is unable to convert the string to integer. Note that
this function also rounds off the values such as '100.456' to 100 and
'100.567' or '100.678' to 101.

While on this, use parse_real for fdw_startup_cost and fdw_tuple_cost options.

Since parse_int and parse_real are being used for reloptions and GUCs,
it is more appropriate to use in postgres_fdw rather than using strtol
and strtod directly.

Back-patch to v14.

Author: Bharath Rupireddy
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat, Tom Lane, Kyotaro Horiguchi, Fujii Masao
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CALj2ACVMO6wY5Pc4oe1OCgUOAtdjHuFsBDw8R5uoYR86eWFQDA@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-07 11:14:16 +09:00
Tom Lane 94911ec28f Doc: add info about timestamps with fractional-minute UTC offsets.
Our code has supported fractional-minute UTC offsets for ages, but
there was no mention of the possibility in the main docs, and only
a very indirect reference in Appendix B.  Improve that.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162543102827.697.5755498651217979813@wrigleys.postgresql.org
2021-07-06 10:34:51 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 1479c5afdc doc: Fix quoting markup 2021-07-05 08:26:30 +02:00
Amit Kapila f3690fbdea Doc: Hash Indexes.
A new chapter for Hash Indexes, designed to help users understand how
they work and when to use them.

Backpatch-through 10 where we have made hash indexes durable.

Author: Simon Riggs
Reviewed-By: Justin Pryzby, Amit Kapila
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-HRjNPYgHo--P1ewBrFJ-GpZPb9_25P7=Wgu7s7hy_sLQ@mail.gmail.com
2021-07-05 09:38:17 +05:30
Michael Paquier 95e2f925f1 doc: Mention requirement to --enable-tap-tests on section for TAP tests
Author: Greg Sabino Mullane
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAKAnmmJYH2FBn_+Vwd2FD5SaKn8hjhAXOCHpZc6n4wXaUaW_SA@mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-07-04 20:59:10 +09:00
David Rowley b88e5fe60e Doc: mention that VACUUM can't utilize over 1GB of RAM
Document that setting maintenance_work_mem to values over 1GB has no
effect on VACUUM.

Reported-by: Martín Marqués
Author: Laurenz Albe
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CABeG9LsZ2ozUMcqtqWu_-GiFKB17ih3p8wBHXcpfnHqhCnsc7A%40mail.gmail.com
Backpatch-through: 9.6, oldest supported release
2021-07-04 22:29:16 +12:00
Bruce Momjian e033e260b9 doc: adjust "cities" example to be consistent with other SQL
Reported-by: tom@crystae.net

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162345756191.14472.9754568432103008703@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 9.6
2021-07-02 20:42:46 -04:00
Bruce Momjian d540929556 docs: clarify new aggressive vacuum mode for multi-xacts
Reported-by: eric.mutta@gmail.com

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/162395467510.686.11947486273299446208@wrigleys.postgresql.org

Backpatch-through: 14
2021-07-02 18:00:30 -04:00
Bruce Momjian 56d467a07d doc: PG 14 relnotes, mention CONCURRENTLY improvements
Add items for vacuum not having to wait for CONCURRENTLY, and
CONCURRENTLY not having to wait for other CONCURRENTLY operations.

Reported-by: Simon Riggs

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CANbhV-EMM4nf7Ys-Yae_kY25dXT_3eiOXke2+yw44jgy+4jNsA@mail.gmail.com

Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-07-02 14:46:31 -04:00
Bruce Momjian a3a681f859 doc: update PG 14 release notes
Mostly addition of <literal> tags

Reported-by: Justin Pryzby

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20210629022547.GF21248@telsasoft.com

Backpatch-through: 14 only
2021-07-01 20:33:32 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut fb72a7b8c3 doc: Remove inappropriate <acronym> tags 2021-07-01 22:41:55 +02:00
Andrew Dunstan 1da2ea0ccc
add missing tag from commit b8c4261e5e 2021-07-01 15:47:47 -04:00
Peter Eisentraut 46bbe5d777 doc: Clean up title case use 2021-07-01 21:27:39 +02:00